"Programming Windows" .Net...?

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The book seems to talk about VC++ 6.0 a lot, ...

"Programming Windows" .Net...?

So, I just got Petzold's "Programming Windows" book. It's huge.
The book seems to talk about VC++ 6.0 a lot, though. You know,
it's features, how to accomplish things... Should I go ahead and
buy VC++ 6.0, or would the things work with .NET? What about
Dev-C++? Would the book's information be, um, 'compatable'
with that?

Petzold assumes you have MS compilers. There are a few cases where the examples would not work with other compilers. One that sprins to mind is the beginthreadex() routine in MS is called beginthreadNT() by Borland. Generally however, there is no problem.